[#WEB-1038] 'New Blog' mail notices sent when a blog post is updated

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'New Blog' mail notices sent when a blog post is updated

Created: 07/Apr/09 06:23 AM Updated: 04/May/09 10:36 AM

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blog.secondlife.com

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Windows XP / Firefox 3.0

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WEB-983 Can't unsubscribe from blog posts after commenting

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I subscribed to Clare Linden's contents by enabling email notifications at
https://blogs.secondlife.com/people/Clare.Linden?view=overview

Clare just posted a blog article, and I received multiple notifications. Right now, a notification is apparently being sent every time the article gets updated.
I noted the same behavious for other blog authors.

Notifications appear to be useful when there is a new post, or a comment - not a minor correction.

Authors should be free to modify their articles, to fix spelling and other minor issues, without fear of spamming people interested in their contents. If they make heavy changes to the article, they're probably going to say in a comment.

So, I think that by default no email notifications should be sent when a blog article is simply edited.

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Opensource Obscure added a comment - 22/Apr/09 04:48 AM - edited

Still happening.

1) I received EIGHT email notifications today because of this article being updated:
Cyn Linden - "Update - Upcoming Changes for Adult Content".
https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/community/blog/2009/04/21/update--upcoming-changes-for-adult-content

-> Notifications should NOT include post updates by default.

2) I'm subscribed to Glenn Linden contents. I received an e-mail notification for each comment added here (these were comments added by users I'm not subcribed to):
"Linden Lab Use of Second Life" - by Glenn Linden
https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/grid/blog/2009/04/21/linden-lab-use-of-second-life

-> Notifications should NOT include comments made to articles by default

I will disable email notifications now until this is fixed.

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stevenSDF Fisher added a comment - 04/May/09 10:17 AM

How about having a feature where by instead of emailing every time an event has occurred, that the thing only sends one email until you log back in.

A lot of forums have this feature where they send one email per thread and won't email until you visit the forum.

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Opensource Obscure added a comment - 04/May/09 10:36 AM

@stevenSDF Fisher:
I agree, that may work well.

I'd say that the already-existing email notification feature should work as you propose, and it should not sent notifications when an article is only edited.

That's why I'm a bit puzzled about the reason why Alexa Linden updated this report from "Bug" to "New feature" - I'd say that the feature already exists but it needs to be tuned.